He was thirty-three, part of two FA-18 squadrons from Cecil Field on the USS Saratoga.
Cecil Field covers an area of 6,000 acres (24 km2) and contains four runways:
It is based at Cecil Field in Jacksonville, Florida.
Mr. Mills recalled days when his neighbor came back from Cecil Field, angered that bad weather or other developments had kept his squadron grounded.
The other air field to the west was called Cecil Field, also Navy, but that's been decommissioned.
Cecil Field is a civil-military airport at Cecil Commerce Center that services military aircraft, corporate aircraft, general aviation, and air cargo.
After a few weeks of underway training and verification, they would return in entirety to Cecil Field for a short break before returning to the ship.
The squadron returned to Cecil Field in May 1957.
The Navy has a big presence in Jacksonville, but part of its complex, Cecil Field, an air station, was closed and turned over to the city last fall.
On 22 April 2010, the first F-16 to be converted to an aerial target arrived at Boeing's facility at Cecil Field, Jacksonville, Florida.